A third of Americans said they would be likely to edit the genome of their embryos to improve the university admission chances of their offspring, and 43 percent would be happy to screen embryos for intelligence using polygenic risk scores...
Italian couples seeking surrogacy abroad could face fines or imprisonment if the Italian parliament passes a proposed new bill...
Patients experienced 30 percent fewer serious side effects when their prescribed medication was tailored to their DNA profile by using a 'DNA medication pass'...
An international multi-cohort study shows that people conceived using IVF and ICSI have no significant differences in cardiometabolic health to naturally conceived children...
A test which detects if a newborn baby has a genetic variant that could make them susceptible to hearing loss if given the antibiotic gentamicin, has been given conditional approval by NICE...
Eating around 12 percent less appears to slow the acquisition of epigenetic markers associated with ageing in humans, according to new research...
In their latest podcast series, Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken explore if people can change and how they do it. Francesca Sowerbutts, a biology student at Bristol University reviews the first episode...
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Beyond the sound and fury: Whole body gestational donation
by Professor Anna Smajdor
Dr Anna Smajdor explains the background to her recent paper which explored the ethics of using brain-dead women as gestational surrogates...
PET Podcast: 100 Years of 'Daedalus' – The Birth of Assisted Reproductive Technology
by Sarah Norcross
Bringing you PET events as a podcast. In the second episode of its podcast, PET looks at how JBS Haldane pioneered the idea of IVF a century ago, with speakers Sandy Starr, Samanth Subramanian, Professor Max Saunders, Professor Nick Hopwood and Dr Chloe Romanis...